• bloopernova@programming.dev
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      I wish, but I think some of his more… enthusiastic supporters would get violent.

      I imagine that the Federal and Georgian governments want to avoid a horde of people rioting and trying to free him from jail. There would be assholes just itching to open fire on “the deep state” and you’d need the national guard to defend the prison/jail. Even if the trumpists started it, such a thing might actually spark a civil war.

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        They’re already violent, and getting more so. Appeasing them isn’t going to make them suddenly behave.

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        If you don’t do the right thing because you’re afraid of bad actors, then the bad actors have won. I’m afraid of violence, too. But if the courts find him guilty on a charge that leads to incarceration, then he should be held to the same standard.

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        I imagine that the Federal and Georgian governments want to avoid a horde of people rioting and trying to free him from jail.

        Atlantan here. Bring it on; I don’t give a shit. We can arrest all the Cobb County MAGA terrorists too, while we’re at it!

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        I just had a thought. . . Put trump in jail as bait. . … let his followers come to “rescue” him. . . . Let them experience the American military power that they love so much. . . I don’t think their AR-15s are going to be much help vs tanks and helicopters and satellites, etc

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        Let them get violent… we need to speed this shit up and have the civil war already before another GQP president had control over the military. Sure, people are gonna die… but it won’t be anyone on the left.

        #consequences 🤪